Comments on: 538â€²S NATE SILVER: THE FORMER DAILY KOS CONTRIBUTOR #2

By: Master Frodo

Master Frodo — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 02:53:27 +0000

Wait! Myself and Sam have an update…it seems that while looking into the palintir that a minor change in the outcome of these one at a time handy counts has warranted a new declaration for the final count in the future! Do to unexpected gains in Hennepin County for Coleman the ending is thus: Coleman gains 49 more votes and so beats Mr. Franken by 148 votes! Instead of 99 Votes as stated before. We both will be watching for any new changes but wev’e see Al Franken over the last two weeks giving a concession speech over and over again and again so it is really hard to see how Coleman could lose.

What?…Oh Sam just heard that Gandolf will be back soon on his white horse in part because he is very curious who this Mr. Silver is.

Cheers.

By: Ed

Ed — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 17:02:06 +0000

Nate Silver is statistician. He has an analysis based on assumptions. Those assumptions change based on the best available data. Silver lays out these assumptions every time he makes a prediction. If you want to go after him, go after his assumptions. You can call him names all you want, but that seems to be all you can do.

By: Master Frodo

Master Frodo — Sun, 23 Nov 2008 04:47:52 +0000

This charlatin false-wizard of regression is full of horse-shit. I Master Frodo and Sam have with us the palantÃr of Orthanc, used by the powerful wizard Saruman.

The future results?

Coleman beats Franken by 99 votes! There you have it!

And this man with his regression who goes by the name Silver with his likely predictions using his sophisticated, but unmagical mathematical formulas attached with hunches and guesses… why he has no balls!

So what he suspects matters not, since he has not one ball to peer into unlike Sam and I. In it we see the future and its final!

Good day.

By: danbrome

danbrome — Sun, 23 Nov 2008 02:17:50 +0000

It is common knowledge that Swiftee is a lonely man, devoid of any rational thoughts. Let’s all pray for his redemption.

By: danbrome

danbrome — Sun, 23 Nov 2008 02:16:24 +0000

I just can’t accept that a Democrat would ever manipulate statistics or present valid information at any time. However, I heard from Erik Paulsen that all Democrats are liars, so I guess that’s true.

Nevermind!

By: Integrity

Integrity — Sat, 22 Nov 2008 21:23:14 +0000

Michael’s “spam filter” will not let me post the response to this entry that I would like to…why not Michael?

By: Swiftee

Swiftee — Sat, 22 Nov 2008 20:29:50 +0000

Mike, I don’t think I’d call Silver’s estimation of the intelligence of the core Democrat demographic “disparaging”.

It’s common knowledge that the Democrat party runs like any other leftist authoritarian organization or government. At the top, you have a few power hungry, but highly intelligent leaders controlling a flock of gerbils that become less intelligent, but more virulent, the farther down the feeding chain you go.

That is why the people we see throwing their bodily waste at people during protests, as well as those that spend 80% of every day leaving asinine moonbat commentary on conservative web sites, are always so utterly stupid…theyâ€™re at the bottom of the heap.

The upper echelon does everything it can to assist them, but they cannot follow their drones into the voting booth (not that they wouldnâ€™t love that). Left to their own devices these pathetic gerbils must depend on the intensive, but brief preparation they receive while being delivered to the polls….doesnâ€™t always work out too well.

So, as much as I agree with your spot on analysis of Silverâ€™s lack of talent, I do have to give him credit for not trying to deny the obvious.

Democrat voters are just not very brightâ€¦.which is why they are Democrats Q.E.D.

By: Aaron

Aaron — Sat, 22 Nov 2008 19:55:33 +0000

Mr. Michael B. Brodkorb: you’re a maverick.

By: PlymouthDem

PlymouthDem — Sat, 22 Nov 2008 19:40:02 +0000

“Says the mouthpiece for the campaign that has declared premature victory not once, not twice, not three times, but four!”

And is now reconsidering his previous proclamations of victory.

By: Amos Mcghee

Amos Mcghee — Sat, 22 Nov 2008 19:28:08 +0000

So, a guy whose opinions are based on historically accurate analysis of data is not credible, but a site full of jackbooted thugs who base their posts purely on opinion are?

By: Steven

Steven — Sat, 22 Nov 2008 19:07:23 +0000

Says the mouthpiece for the campaign that has declared premature victory not once, not twice, not three times, but four!